Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) defended the choice to deliver her State of the Union response from her kitchen on Thursday, saying it focused on “kitchen table issues” after being criticized as in poor taste. Britt’s State of the Union featured the accomplished senator portrayed as a motherly figure, compared to more traditional presentations by previous...
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Sunday accused Republicans of using the death of 22-year-old Laken Riley to "score cheap political" points after she was invoked during President Biden's State of the Union address. "I can tell you as a pastor who has done hundreds of eulogies, and presided over all kinds of funerals, there is...
DST disrupts our body clocks, resulting in more emergency room visits for heart attacks, strokes, mood disorders and other health risks, especially among older people.
Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) defended herself on Sunday after she used a story of sexual violence two decades ago in Mexico as an attack on President Biden in her State of the Union response. Britt shared the story of a young woman she met who experienced harrowing human trafficking between 2004-2008 in Mexico but used...
The Biden campaign brought in $10 million in donations in the 24 hours after President Biden's State of the Union address, as Biden continues to build a cash advantage over former President Trump, the likely GOP nominee. The Biden campaign said Sunday that it was the largest 24-hour haul of the campaign so far. This...
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) lauded President Biden on Sunday after the president’s State of the Union speech and hit former President Trump for spending his election campaign concerned about himself and his legal dilemma. “Joe Biden is tried, tested and true. He's seen this nonsense before,” Warnock said in an NBC “Meet the Press” interview...
The United States embassy in Haiti began evacuating some of its personnel on Sunday due to escalating gang violence. "The U.S. Embassy in Haiti remains open. Heightened gang violence in the neighborhood near U.S. embassy compounds and near the airport led to the State Department's decision to arrange for the departure of additional embassy personnel....
His term as NASA administrator during George H. W. Bush’s presidency was fraught with controversy.
A U.S. military ship is heading to Gaza to build a temporary seaport that will provide humanitarian assistance to the war-ravaged territory. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement that a U.S. Army vessel is "en route to the Eastern Mediterranean less than 36 hours after President Biden announced the U.S. would provide humanitarian...
Actress Scarlett Johansson parodied Sen. Katie Britt’s (R-Ala.) rebuttal to the State of the Union last week in “Saturday Night Live’s” cold open after the response was met with widespread criticism and mocking on social media. The episode opened with a brief introduction from cast member Ego Nwodim, who was playing CNN’s Abby Phillips, before...
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) took a swing at President Biden for “trying to gloss over all of his failures” in his State of the Union address in an interview that aired Sunday. “Joe Biden is trying to gloss over all of his failures… making American families spend more on everything from food, to gas, to...
Ethnic studies is not just an academic abstraction; it helps dismantle the racial hierarchies that inform social inequality within the U.S. and beyond, and thus hold us all back.
Former President Trump is turning to familiar terrain as he gears up for the general election campaign against President Biden, escalating his attacks on migrants coming into the country and warning of calamitous consequences at the border if Biden is reelected. Trump has for years used incendiary rhetoric about immigrants to fire up his base,...
The Trump and Biden campaigns have a delicate task ahead in courting socially conservative Latino Catholics, a group that’s ideologically opposed to core tenets of either presidential pitch. Both platforms are rooted in stances that directly violate Catholic teachings. Former President Trump’s rhetoric on immigrants and plans to curb the influx of migrants at the...
NEW YORK (AP) — It's tax season in the U.S., and for many people, filing tax returns can be a daunting task that’s often left until the last minute. But if you want to avoid the stress of the looming deadline, start getting organized as soon as possible. Whether you do your taxes yourself, go to a...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched a criminal investigation following the Alaska Airlines incident during which a door panel blew off a Boeing 737 Max mid-flight. Investigators have contacted some passengers and crew who were on the Jan. 5 flight that made the emergency landing in Portland, Ore., the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday....
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) predicted that Black voters will consolidate their support around President Biden in his likely rematch against former President Trump because he has always supported them. Moore, a member of the Biden-Harris 2024 National Advisory Board, joined MSNBC’s Al Sharpton from Atlanta, Ga., where Biden held a campaign event where he...
TikTok once again finds itself in a precarious position. This time, it comes in the form of legislation that would ban the popular social media platform if it doesn’t break ties with ByteDance, its Beijing-based parent company. On Thursday, a House panel unanimously approved a bipartisan bill that would require the Chinese firm to divest...
At a rally Saturday, former President Trump applauded Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for the impromptu exchange she had with President Biden during his State of the Union address over Laken Riley, a college student who was killed last month by an illegal migrant. The rally was held in Rome, Ga., Greene’s district. Trump invited...
At a rally in Rome, Ga., on Saturday, former President Trump backtracked on his previous statements that polls in the state are rigged since he now is “winning by so much.” The former president visited the Peach State, where he, along with 18 other defendants, were changed with entering a conspiracy to overturn his 2020...
Ty Cobb, who served as White House attorney under former President Trump, argued that the “facts are terrible” in his multiple legal cases and that it’s probably been “very difficult” for him to navigate the various battles. Trump, the likely GOP nominee for the November election, has a tangled web of legal troubles already playing...
President Biden and former President Trump held dueling campaign events in Georgia on Saturday, effectively kicking off a lengthy general election campaign in what is expected to be a hotly contested battleground state. The two men traded fierce barbs at events that took place less than an hour away from one another, with Biden hammering...
President Biden on Saturday said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "hurting Israel more than helping" with his handling of the war with Hamas, even as Biden stressed he would not abandon support for Israel. "What's happening is he has a right to defend Israel, a right to continue to pursue Hamas," Biden told MSNBC's...
Iran “bears responsibility” for Mahsa Amini’s “unlawful death” in 2022 that ignited nationwide protests, a U.N. report said Friday. The pronouncement came from a report by the U.N. Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, which said that Tehran used “unnecessary and disproportionate use of lethal force” to repel protestors in the aftermath of the death. Amini was...
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) argued that communities of color are “incredibly critical” in helping reelect President Biden in November and said he thinks marginalized communities “won’t survive” another term with former President Trump. Frost joined MSNBC’s Katie Phang, where he discussed the Biden’s recent endorsements. The Latino Victory Fund, AAPI Victory Fund and The Collective...